Esmeralda Corridor — Attraction in San Francisco

An amazing little hidden feature of San Francisco's Mission neighborhood - great for kids, solitary walks, and dates. A pretty long straight set of slides right in the middle of the neighborhood. Walking up the west face of Bernal Hill - a block of Esmeralda street has slides instead of pavement! There are stairs too. And it's more than a block. There area few adjacent mini-playgrounds and viewing areas. The slopes also have some amazing plants - be careful not to disturb them. Local residents must have taken great care to create and maintain this hillside garden. The stairs lead all the way to the road which goes to the summit of Bernal Hill, one of the seven main hills of SF. Bernal is the one by Safeway on 30th and Mission. There's a radio tower and also a...

Cute metal slide here. Very quaint little park below Bernal Heights Park, which is accessible by some stairs. Slide is metal and tall, but not as tall as Seward's cement slides. Also, it's a straight slide with a small...

The slides are a neat little secret. But the people living in the surrounding neighborhood are uptight, privileged ignorant, judgmental predominantly white and disgusted by anyone appearing to not belong or own wealth in...